• I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Fun fact! It used to be called the parlor and was basically only used for home funerals, so was casually called the death room. When the funeral industry became a thing, rebranding it as “the living room” was an effort by the Ladies Home Journal in 1910 to get rid of the creepy feeling most people associated with that room, to make it a nice place for families to hang out while still alive.

    https://armls.com/step-into-the-death-room